New PayPal Subscriptions and Donations almost release ready

Happy to provide feedback but not quite sure where you'd like it to be sent? Is here the right place?

If so! just downloaded and installed, creating first subscription:
user warning: Data too long for column 'type' at row 1 query: INSERT INTO watchdog (uid, type, message, severity, link, location, referer, hostname, timestamp) VALUES (1, 'LM_PayPal_Subscriptions', 'sql:INSERT INTO {lm_paypal_subscriptions} ...

Lee,
thank you very much. I'll try to test it in the next 2 days.

Others please help test!

bad news. this is on the old version, not the new version.

the blank website problem is back.

all pages are completely blank.

right now I can produce this problem with complete reliability
rename lm_paypal.module to something else
site works
restore lm_paypal.module (by renaming)
everything blank.

although the problem was been intermitten in the past, right now it occurs with complete reliability.

however, this is on the old website, not a clean install.

i've made no changes in the meantime.

others, please test and see if you get this also.

I currently have a 4.6 install running and need to get paypal subscriptions working on it. So, will this module work on 4.6?

.module was missing ?> at end.
after I put that in, I can get to /user.
however, front page is still blank.

it is possible I've found the problem.
locale module must be enabled.

i looked in cpanel error logs
said t is undefined function
in api docs it looks like t requires locale function
locale function is in locale module

i enabled locale module and so far everything looks right (this is the old version).

i'll try the new version now.

I have the new version on a clean site.
i've tested the ad module.
everything is working great.

locale is NOT enabled.
no error messages in admin
no error messages in cpanel

right now my ads don't show up in my account, but i assume that's just because you had to leave before it was done.

below i'll add some comments about features.

lee, thank you! you are really very productive. thank you for producing 4 modules so quickly.

after a break, I'll test subs, but since donations and subs were working well before I assume they will be fine.

it's working correctly as far i've tested. so thank you!

what I hope it can do
1) recurring.
I am producing something more like an on-going ad in a magazine, and less like a used car ad. so I'm expecting my ads to be recurring every month.

2) types. i plan to have multiple types. right now all postings appear under one category in "create content"

say (not the actual case)

day care listing
vacation rental

so I need to have different node types that have different fields

3) cck. I was hoping this can integrate with cck. so that each node type can have more than 2 fields.

lee, I know you are on vacation, and I hope you are having a good one. if you can write back and just say whether these features are possible (tho you can't do them right now) that would be much appreciated.

thank you. thank you.

lee,
so nice to hear from you. thanks for the quick reply. I just remembered you are in la from london, not sf, so it's a big vacation. glad you are having a good time. definitely enjoy your vacation.

*. yes, cck seems quite stable now.
*. i realized the workflow is complex. we could either have user pick
a) run this once
b) run this until i cancel it.
or
not give the user a choice.

for myself, i am actually thinking of only having one option for a specific node type.
eg. vacation rental gets "run til cancel"
eg. advertisement for concert gets "run once"

i think i'd rather the user not get "run once" for vacation rental, but I'll have to think about it.

probably one choice per node type is easier for you.

*. I applied for a paypal account. I think i'll just hold off on testing until the account comes thru and i can test live. the sandbox is a lot of trouble

*. the only other thing i'll need in the next few months is file downloads (for selling pdfs) but given how fast you are producing everything it sounds like it'll be easy for you.

*. you are terrific! I'll definitely send you some money if I end up using this, which looks like a very strong possibility right now.

thank you.

Hi Lee!

I just found your new module by chance and it sounds like this will be the future replacement of the existing two PayPal modules...

I've read thru both long posts but could not find out

a) Did you inherit some code from the old modules means: can they be left aside or do I need them?

b) Is there a way to import existing client subscriptions into the ad system ?
My requirement here is
1) different durations and prices (hence different roles/values)
2) different subscription trigger points
so practically everythings different

I'm thinking about creating a sql script for that purpose, feeding all the "paypal history" into it by hand,
so there's not necessarly a need for a full automated subscription sync

c) do you have a way to modify existing subscriptions, e.g. change the amounts or trigger dates? I read in the API spec that there seems to be something like that, but it's not available via the PP UI

Thanks & best regards,
Christoph C. Cemper

--- http://www.cemper.com
--- http://weblog.cemper.com
--- http://www.marketingfan.com

Lee

I have installed your module and it seems ok. I am looking at various options for people to subscribe to a (wwoof.org) web site either as hosts (providing information on pages, part of which is not viewable to anon browsers) or members (seeing hidden information for host pages in different countries, depending on the flavour of membership). We are VAT registered so need to know the country of the payee in reports. At some stage we may want to add VAT to the price where people are from EU countries (as per ec_tax module). Not all member of the orgainsation use the web (or do use the web but pay for membership with cash etc) but we would like to be able to keep the definitive records in the drupal database so we will need to able to add records to user_roles in such a way that they lapse after a year. Manually adding records to lm_paypal_subscribers would seem to be a way of doing this. (poss with other fields to enable accounting)

Paddy

I've just set up some new sandboxes. This is a completely install with no contrib except for lmpaypal.
I just process a donation. It appeared to work correctly. But I did find this (seeming) error message in admin.
empty item_number - being converted to web_accept

everything else looks right
1. deducted from user account in paypal
2. added to biz account in paypal
3. shows up in admin -- lm
4. no errors in cpanel

I have noticed that lm paypal is not removed from the navigation menu when the modules are removed.

I believe this is not expected behavior

my subscription button is not working. I don't know why.

UPDATE: I just checked the old site. The button on the old site works if I go to it via the navigation menu. On the new site, the button does not work, even if I go via the navigation menu. so problem is not button. I've enabled access control. both sites use version 1.17. I'll have to think about what else needs to be configured.

RESOLVED. It turns out that I had inadvertently skipped the price when setting up the subscription because of the way the screen paged down. The default price is zero. I realized this finally when using the navigation menu to get to the button and the description said that the price is zero.

I'm leaving this here for others who may run into the same issue. The Paypal error message was too vague.

<?php
$subid = 1;
if (lm_paypal_can_subscribe ($subid)) {
  print 'Why not subscribe now? ' . lm_paypal_subscribe($subid,8);
}
?>

it's taken directly from the readme

This is the error i get
http://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr
Error Detected
The link you have used to enter the PayPal system is invalid. Please review the link and try again.
_account
The link you have used to enter the PayPal system is invalid. Please review the link and try again.

just tested sub
everything working great.
user promoted correctly and instantly. (so nice to see that working smoothly without the old timezone and cron problems.) Lee, thank you!!)

2 paypal accounts correctly adjusted

no error messages in admin or cpanel.

hurray!

after a break I'll test the ads and the notification messages. Lee, thank you for putting in the very flexible 3 kinds of notification emails.

the ad module is working right as it was before.

a few comments
1) for webmasters: the easiest way for the buyer to view their ad after purchase is probably to enable the module tracker, which puts "recents posts" in navigation menu, and direct user to look in recent posts via the postpurchase page.
2) for Lee: I imagine 80% of buyers will think the ad has been published before it's paid for, because the buy can see it. I know you tell them others can't see it, but I don't think they will understand that. Perhaps one way to help address this is to change the name of the paypal tab to "pay to publish ad". if possible, changing the "view" tab to "view draft" tab will also help.

I think the confusion will cause a lot of angry users who will demand to know why their friends cannot view the ad, even though they can. they might even do a chargeback on their credit card, which will be expensive.

i know it is a misunderstanding on the buyer's part, but the process is so counterintuitive that I think we'll have to make a lot of effort to make it as clear as possible. the customer service costs and chargebacks (plus the costs of being possibly frozen by paypal for complaints about fraud) can easily add up to more than the revenues from the ad.

i do understand that the way drupal is set up we may have to live with this workflow. it is the same workflow suggested by gordon, the maintainer of ecommerce.

Lee, thank you for doing a great as well as fast job of implementing this. it's really exciting to see this almost ready.

will the buyer be able to view "my ads"?

will there be a place where we can view a log of the ads transactions?

since the other 2 modules have this, I guess those 2 are planned features.

will we be able to download spreadsheets of the transactions? is this straightforward, or quite hard? clearly if there are a lot of buyers, this feature will become very important. my sense is that we can't sort the transactions, right? we can't sort the user list that comes in drupal by default, so i guess we have the same limitations here. my plan is to download and sort in spreadsheet software.

I know the feature requests are coming fast, and you've already said you'll take a look at multiple types of ads, as well as cck. thank you!

oops. the error messages have returned. this is on a completely new sandbox 4.7.3 with only lm contrib modules. I wouldn't think it's any problem with the website.

can other testers please check to see if you have these error messages?
i found them in cpanel under "error logs".
as far as i know, they are "apace error logs" but i'm just guessing. maybe it's php error logs

any info on all the possible places to look for error logs would be appreciated

[Mon Aug 21 14:08:19 2006] [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: l() in /home/ /public_html /modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal.module on line 61
[Mon Aug 21 14:05:15 2006] [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: l() in /home/ /public_html /modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal.module on line 61
[Mon Aug 21 14:05:15 2006] [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: l() in /home/ /public_html /modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal.module on line 61
[Mon Aug 21 14:05:15 2006] [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: l() in /home/ /public_html /modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal.module on line 61
[Mon Aug 21 14:05:13 2006] [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: l() in /home/ /public_html /modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal.module on line 61
[Mon Aug 21 14:05:11 2006] [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: l() in /home/ /public_html /modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal.module on line 61
[Mon Aug 21 14:03:40 2006] [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: l() in /home/ /public_html /modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal.module on line 61
[Mon Aug 21 14:03:40 2006] [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: l() in /home/ /public_html /modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal.module on line 61
[Mon Aug 21 14:00:20 2006] [error] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: l() in /home/ /public_html /modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal.module on line 61
[Mon

This function is being called about 60 times an hour. Why is it being called so often when no one is buying anything?

Hi Lee,
thank you for your six comments!

I'm interested to hear that you don't see the error messages. these are not from admin. these are from cpanel (my host verified they are apache errors). Based on the answer below, I would think the errors would show up in any environment. I guess you have Apache error logs enabled and you've checked the Apache error logs, right?

--The quote below is an answer I got from a Drupal developer
--I realize now you are calling t before t is loaded.
--Perhaps this problem would simply go away if we call t after hook init

[begin quote]
In line with what KarenS wrote: lm_paypal does some things in hook_init it
shouldn't do (and can't do):

for example:

$link = l('LMMR Tech', 'http://lmmrtech.com');
$_lm_paypal_welcome = '<p>'. t('Welcome to the %lm PayPal modules for  
Drupal.', array('%lm' => $link)) .'</p>';
$_lm_paypal_welcome .= '<p><b>'. t('These modules are still undergoing  
development so it is strongly advised that you to test them out against  
the PayPal Sandbox first.') .'</b></p>';

Drupal has multiple so called bootstrap phases; depending on the stage and
cache settings, not all functions are loaded.
[end quote]

here are comments from KarenS
http://drupal.org/node/79867#comment-147180

When you submit the bug report, suggest the developer look at hook_init(). The functions are not loaded until after hook_init() runs and I have seen this error on other modules that tried to use various drupal functions in hook_init(). Also, hook_init() runs even for cached pages, and in those cases the functions are not loaded at all.
You pretty much have to assume that no functions are available in that hook, so hook_init() either needs to be rewritten not to use functions or the functions must be moved to some other place that runs later in the startup process.

Hi Lee,
thank you very much for posting the new version so quickly.
i'll test it
would not calling hook init create problems like not being able to use locale module (which uses t)?

Lee and others,
I've installed today's 1.18.

UPDATE: I saw some errors (the same ones), but I realized they are on an old install 1.17 that I reenabled to check something. I haven't seen any errors on the new one yet.

now I was going to test the notification emails.

Lee, you write "be very careful about editing subscription details." is it possible to lay out a list of variables (no rush) that can be changed (which I presume the email variables are) and variables that cannot be changed? I believe the price and subid but I am not sure about some of the others. i can certainly imagine myself wanting to change some of the others, such as trial unit days.

by the way, today the user was correctly billed another cycle and correctly remains in the promoted role. way to go!

working great.

1. another subscriber was just correctly processed. (promoted, shows up in my account, shows up in admin lm sub). did 2 users with multiple roles.

2. haven't had any error messages with 1.18. it's been an hour. I've done about 10 transactions, so it seems to be fixed. hurray.

3. notification email was sent out correctly. I'll play around with it to see if it can handle long messages. (yes, okay so far)

-. this is a minor thing. in the admin -- settings navigation menu, the lm modules runs past its column. in some themes this could possibly break, but the admin could simply revert back to a base theme when administering lm modules. it may not be fixable.

4. multiple roles implemented. everything working correctly.

5. cancellation email worked correctly. the one counter-intuitive things is that subscribers are viewed as live or dead. to find out when they cancelled, admin would have to wade through emails or paypal.com logs. paypal logs on paypal.com do not pull out cancellations, so it would be wading through all sub logs. paypal offers a "file"(archive) option but I didn't see where to download the file or whether it's viewable as a spreadsheet.

if others are familiar with the paypal.com interface, pointers about the above issue would be appreciated.

Lee,
it's such a wonderful experience to watch everything work as it should, after seeing the other modules have so many bugs.

three cheers for Lee!

p.s. right now I'm planning an english only site, but just so I know what I'm getting into,
with hook_init removed, will this module work with the translation functions, locale module, etc.?

Thanks for the module. I wrote my own but I think I will switch to yours. Anyway people may not know you can tell Paypal on every request what url to post ipns to. So if you want to do this you can add

$link = url('lm_paypal/ipn', null, null, TRUE);
$link = str_replace('http:','https:',$link);
$form .= "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"notify_url\" value=\"$link\"/>";

to the modules in the form generation functions. I don't know about the other two modules but in the subscription module a good place to put it would be between lines 449 and 450.

Nathan

donations gave this error about an hour or 2 after my last post (about having received no error message).
i don't know why . I am not testing donations and have not been on the test site.
the lm paypal donate module is enabled.

Call to undefined function:  lm_paypal_donate() in /home/public_html/includes/common.inc(1175) : eval()'d code on line 5

today, this error was in my watchdog log
error LM_PayPal_Subs 2006-08-23 10:28 Attempt to end unknown subscription, ignored Anonymous view

I have done nothing, so the attempt to end subscription was auto-generated by paypal i think.

If I recall what I did correctly, yesterday I cancelled the subscription via Paypal and everything appeared correctly cancelled.

Going back through the logs, I am a bit confused about what I did yesterday since I'm only using 1 customer to test. What I'll do is add more customers so that I can test different processes for cancellation.

I'll leave this error message here in case you have any clues. i've changed identifying info.

id 16
timestamp Wed, 2006-08-23 10:28
processed 0
test_ipn 1
verify_sign AF7hOPN5A4VXGE5deS2I
payer_email fname@fname.com
first_name f
last_name n
payer_business_name fname
payer_id 6WDYY8X24X8BQ
payer_status 0
residence_country US
item_name make2
quantity 0
item_number 2
receiver_email a@aaa.com
custom 4
mc_currency USD
txn_type subscr_eot
recur_times 2
subscr_id S-57575350665144028

ok. i've implemented a system for testing subscriptions. everything is working right. after a few days I can check for expiring, cancellations, etc.

lee, I just wanted to say that as I work with the email notification system I am impressed by how flexible it is. It has 4 different kinds of emails I can choose from. Usually when I test a module it's missing various features, but when I use this I find that you've put in more options than I've even thought of. thank you.

by the way lee, you may want to restart this thread as a new thread and add "classified ads" in addition to subscriptions and donations to the title to get others to help test the classified ads.

Lee

the lm_paypal_subscription.module TODO sounds to be exactly what I need - I had actually opened the script in an editor to start investigations-prior-to-hacking when I saw your comment. I am happy to carry on but I don't want to waste effort if you (or anyone else) is already doing it or will do it soon and probably better than me.

thanks both lee and the other programmer for your input.

I'm realizing I need a way for admin to cancel a membership/subscription. If a person gets kicked out for bad behavior, I'll need to cancel their membership. I didn't see a way in lm paypal, but I haven't looked in detail at paypal.com.

also, do you know if 30 days means 30 times 24 hours? I know before with cron the time can become an issue.

I believe the donate button needs to check if the module is enabled

if (module_exist('name of module')) {
// print the button
}

I had a problem with the page disappearing leaving only a "we'd really like $10" line if module is disabled. (no theme elements appear)

this may be true for the subscription button

Lee,
I realized one good way to address the confusion about whether the ad is published is via email notification. in addition to everything else, we can tell the buyer "as the author, you can view your ad before it's published. After your payment is processed and your ad is published and is viewable by other people, you will receive an email notification."

the drupal system is very confusing because i think a regular user cannot tell whether their post is viewable by others. if they do not have edit permission, they cannot view the edit tab.

Months ago when various developers were trying to code this module,
the question arose of whether posts by an author whose membership has expired should be unpublished.

one developer was going to code them to be unpublished.

I said I'll have both kinds of needs.
in some cases, I want the posts to be unpublished (e.g. member profile.)
In other cases, I want the posts to remain published. (e.g. hotel reviews.)

Lee, I was wondering how you've set it up (stay published, I assume) and what kind of flexibility we can build in.

Hi,
Can anyone please elaborate on the features of this module.
Also why is this module not available in the modules page of drupal?

Manuj

after 2 days, 1 user was correctly expired.
it was 10 minutes shy of 48 hours. but that's probably just an email timing issue. I don't think any of my customers will have a problem with that. I'll probably set it for 31days and describe it as 30 days any way.

how is eot different from dead when I filter?

is there any page on drupal where I see how much money I've made? or only on paypal

thank you.

enjoy the rest of your vacation!

Lee,
how much modification would it take for anonymous to be able to buy a paid membership?

on my site, i'll let anonymous buy a membership to get access.

Hi,
I installed the module and configured it using the instructions, however, the ad shows published even without the user paying for the ad. Not sure if this is because I didn't set-up the business account at Paypal or not. I thought I could test the posting of ads without having to set-up the account, but I did configure the admin settings section in lm_paypal and paid adverts sections.

I also configured the lm_paid_adverts under content types in the admin section so that posts were not published, but still they are published and to the front page.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.
Heather

good news. lm paypal sub is working LIVE. everything is working. i set a 5 day subscription, so I can check again in 5 days.

Lee,
one thing.
on the paypal.com "Make your payment" page, it says
Subscription terms: $1.00 USD for each 5 days.

I think it should say for proper grammer "for every 5 days."
I don't know if that's paypal doing that.

Request-- can we make the paypal subscription button the pretty credit card button not the ugly paypal button?

I did confirm that webmaster can cancel subscription via paypal.com.

I'm sure jetlag is tiring! no rush. take some time to recover.

thank you very much.

good news. lm paypal sub is working LIVE. everything is working. i set a 5 day subscription, so I can check again in 5 days.

Lee,
one thing.
on the paypal.com "Make your payment" page, it says
Subscription terms: $1.00 USD for each 5 days.

I think it should say for proper grammer "for every 5 days."
I don't know if that's paypal doing that.

Request-- can we make the paypal subscription button the pretty credit card button not the ugly paypal button?

I did confirm that webmaster can cancel subscription via paypal.com.

I'm sure jetlag is tiring! no rush. take some time to recover.

thank you very much.

I'm now testing the ad module.

I see Lee's made some wording changes to the current 1.18. thank you.

1) it says "This article will be only viewable by you" I changed the text to something custom. but I think it should say "viewable by only you." (move the "only")

that one is simple in that it's easy for us to change.

the menu is a problem.
under create content
"Paypal paid adverts" I didn't see where to change that.

also, url line says "lm paypal " blah blah (because of the module name perhaps) so that could be a problem for the suspicious user.

I changed the tab to some variety of "pay to publish"

[quote]
Not yet paid for. To make this article viewable by others you need to pay with PayPal. Please click the button below.

Paid advert $1 for 31 days [item_number1] .

[unquote]

The [item-number1] looks ugly. I'm afraid to change that in case paypal needs it. Is it okay to change? what's that about?

looking great overall. just minor word-smithing now.

it does seem there is a workflow problem with ad module.

i tested a paid for ad. looking good.

however, with the ad that was created and not paid for.
1) it shows up in recent posts for my other users.
2) when other users click on it from the "recent posts" page, they get an "access denied" error.
this is not good in that the other users will think they are lacking some permission, when that's not the issue. it's that it has not been paid for.

3) if admin looks at the not paid for ad, the ad is marked "published."

I'm going to sell some things/services that I will process by hand. I think the lm donate module pretty much does what I need. I'll mostly need to changing the word donate to buy everywhere.

on the my account page, it might take some configuring. because otherwise it'll just say thanks for your $x purchase, thanks for your $y purchase without saying what they got. I might try to disable that for the time being.

Lee,
what do you think about making a buy module that's like donate? you could possibly even make it something like the buddylist module which offers a few lines at the top for how to do global word substitutions in the file.

thank you.

Here is the Killes solution for pay per listing
http://drupal.org/node/77038#comment-145995

What I did for a similar case is to add a "buy me" link to a sample node. The link goes directly to the payment processor, but I think it could go to the shopping cart instead. Upon completion of payment, I add a special property to the user object and save. When the user goes to /node/add/foo where foo is the node type I check whether he has the special property and delete it after the node got created.

this sounds like a better workflow, if I understand it correctly. the person buys, and then creates the object. it may also be easier to integrate with cck. (Killes is the maintainer of Drupal 4.7.)

Hi Lee,
thanks for changing the sub button
that's exciting, that you've been trying out different things with the ad module.

it's great that any node can be restricted. (and do you mean any node as opposed to any node type?)

but I assume you don't mean all nodes will be restricted until paid for.

i assume you don't mean a per node setting for 100% of nodes. that could be pretty time-consuming from the admin point of view. my thought had been to set it by node type (cck). some will be free. some will charge per node.

in terms of names, i think pay per listing would be okay. i don't know about what "pay to publish" means in drupal right now. maybe without the underscores just to make typing easier. payperlisting.module perhaps.

i'm not convinced you'd want paypal in the name, because it seems to me you may eventually want to integrate other solutions.

thank you! i'll be ready to test as soon as you put it up.

Lee
1) that's great about being able to coexist with ecommerce! I probably won't need it but I'm sure many people will be excited to hear about that. thank you for implementing it
2) good news about ad and node types. sounds great. thank you.
3) have you thought about a paymentlegal module? a terms and conditions that someone has to sign when they purchase something.
I've realized that I'd really like to have this.

I think it'd might be quick. the legal module has just about all of it. the only trick is to link it to the buy page instead of the registration page.

ideally there could be more than one terms and condition contract, depending on the product.

the legal module won't do it because it's only shown on the registration page. it has this nice feature of 1 contract plus 5 optional checkboxes.

thank you for all the work!

Lee
1) that's great about being able to coexist with ecommerce! I probably won't need it but I'm sure many people will be excited to hear about that. thank you for implementing it
2) good news about ad and node types. sounds great. thank you.
3) have you thought about a paymentlegal module? a terms and conditions that someone has to sign when they purchase something.
I've realized that I'd really like to use this, instead of trying to stuff everything "if you ever buy something from this website you also promise...) into the legal module.

I think it'd might be quick. the legal module has just about all of it. the only trick is to link it to the buy page instead of the registration page.

ideally there could be more than one terms and condition contract, depending on the product.

the legal module won't do it because it's only shown on the registration page. it has this nice feature of 1 contract plus 5 optional checkboxes.

thank you for all the work!

Lee
1) that's great about being able to coexist with ecommerce! I think I'll be relying on lm paypal for everything but I'm sure many people will be excited to hear about that. thank you for implementing it
2) good news about ad and node types. sounds great. thank you.
3) have you thought about a paymentlegal module? a terms and conditions that someone has to sign when they purchase something.
I've realized that I'd really like to use this, instead of trying to stuff everything "if you ever buy something from this website you also promise...) into the legal module.

I think it'd might be quick. the legal module has just about all of it. the only trick is to link it to the buy page instead of the registration page.

ideally there could be more than one terms and condition contract, depending on the product.

the legal module won't do it because it's only shown on the registration page. it has this nice feature of 1 contract plus 5 optional checkboxes.

thank you for all the work!

Hi Lee,
the link on your site is still to 1.19.

Hi Lee,
I got this error.
Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of [runtime function name](). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module on line 133
about 8 times for various lines.

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of [runtime function name](). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module on line 133

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of [runtime function name](). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module on line 133

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of [runtime function name](). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module on line 253

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of [runtime function name](). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module on line 322

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of lm_paypal_paid_adverts_has_sub(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module on line 360

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of lm_paypal_paid_adverts_has_sub(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module on line 360

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of lm_paypal_paid_adverts_has_sub(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module on line 403

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of lm_paypal_paid_adverts_has_sub(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module on line 403

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of lm_paypal_paid_adverts_has_sub(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module on line 415

Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value; If you would like to pass it by reference, modify the declaration of lm_paypal_paid_adverts_has_sub(). If you would like to enable call-time pass-by-reference, you can set allow_call_time_pass_reference to true in your INI file. However, future versions may not support this any longer. in /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module on line 415

when I installed cck next,
I got the above list of error messages, but without anything else. (in my previous post, I got the error messages followed by the admin page and could do normal things.

so i navigated to my home page.
i got this error
warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/modules/lm_paypal/lm_paypal_paid_adverts.module:415) in /var/www/includes/common.inc on line 266.

i didn't do anything to the advert file. after getting this message, I opened it to see if there was an extra blank space at the end but I don't think so.

plus my database is acting like it's wiped/ a new install. it's saying i can go ahead and create the first account.

however, it didn't let me make a new user 1.

I installed cck on a clean sandbox. I got the same deprecated error warnings. (but not the header warning)

I talked to my host. it appeared to be caused by the php debugger i've been trying to install. i uninstalled php and installed it again. the warnings went away.

the admin interface seems nice

there seems to be a bug

i'm on the make a subscription page.
it does not let me select a role (for node/paid adverts, which is not supposed to have one.)

but will not let me exit the page saying
Subscribers Role field is required.

thank you! this looks very promising

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to let you know that Lee put a donation button on the front page of his website. I sent him some money. (It's in pounds, so just multiply by 2 to convert to US dollars.) And I'll be sending him more when the site goes live with real users.

I just wanted to encourage everyone to send him money to keep this development going. Lee has done such a great job.

Thank you Lee.

i think the header warning also went away after reinstalling php

PayPal Webpayment Pro ?

Lee,
one minor request

on your site, can you paste the download url below the link so I can copy and paste it into wget? right now i have to click on the link, write the url in my notebook, and type the url into shell. thank you.

testing the ad module.
what i see so far
1) the early-on warnings about paying to publish are gone.
2) very interesting. before payment, the ad title is viewable to the public, with the line "not yet published." thanks for polishing that. for me, that's not great, because the user could put the title as "new blank for sale, see url blah blah"
3) this is minor, but if the return page does not exist there is no warning. however, any testing should catch this.
4) the return page is the same as for buying paid memberships. so the page will be a little schizophrenic.
"if you bought a paid membership, thank you. here is additonal info.
..
if you bought an ad, thank you. here is how to view your ad...."

5) everything else worked great. thank you for adding the links to the navigation menu. thank you for the nice summary table in "my account"

thank you very much!

Lee -- did you think about the killes solution/workflow I posted earlier in this thread? the person pays before they write the node, if I understand it correctly.

http://drupal.org/node/78002#comment-149779
What I did for a similar case is to add a "buy me" link to a sample node. The link goes directly to the payment processor, but I think it could go to the shopping cart instead. Upon completion of payment, I add a special property to the user object and save. When the user goes to /node/add/foo where foo is the node type I check whether he has the special property and delete it after the node got created.

this sounds like a better workflow, if I understand it correctly. the person buys, and then creates the object. it may also be easier to integrate with cck. (Killes is the maintainer of Drupal 4.7.)

It would a different workflow from yours. I think I prefer that. What is your thinking about that workflow? feasibility of implementation in your framework, etc.

a question about multiple ipn url's. I have about 4 sites now testing lm paypal.
1) live site
2) sandbox site with lmpaypal and nothing else
3) sandbox site with lmpaypal and cck
4) sandbox site with lmpaypal and whatever

i'm really only testing one at a time because i set my paypal return ipn to the current one. is there another way?

thank you for making it possible for anonymous to buy ad, per request.

where it says "please take out one of the subscriptions below" to publish the ad,
it doesn't show any subscriptions.
it says "please log in or create new account"

this wasn't quite the workflow I had in mind. but now i see why the discussion is so complicated in terms of integration ecommerce info with registration info.

an additional issue with this workflow is that i must give anonymous create node permission, which creates a security risk. my site has tightly controlled membership.

perhaps i need to think this through and dig up the threads about different options for the workflow when anonymous buys.

thank you very much for adding the feature.

Hi Lee,
I just sent you another donation.

thank you for all the features!

I haven't had the chance to test this module out yet but it looks pretty solid. I'll likely be using it solely for donations and after seeing your site's page for the module, I have a suggestion / feature request.

I noticed that you have 3 different donation buttons on your page to support multiple currencies. I think it would be pretty cool to hook in with an IP resolution database (I think there's a module for this) and allow the administrator to setup which countries he would like to have resolved to which currencies. It would be nice if it were automatic, but that's too much work and there could be situations where an admin doesn't want to go by the default currency for a country; a manual system would be the way to go.

The settings page could have a place to add and configure currency profiles, forcing one to be set as the default for unresolved IPs or in the event that the administrator has not specified any other resolutions. A "currency profile" would just be a currency type (USD, yen, Euro) referencing a list of countries using that currency and a suggested donation value; an enable/disable toggle per profile would be nice, too. You could include some standard, empty currency profiles that just defined the currency type but no countries; you would have to include at least one for the required default profile.

For example, if the user's IP resolved to England, the module would check to see if England was assigned to any currency profile; if not, it would use the default, if so it would use that profile. Assuming I had created the GBP profile (or it was included), the module would grab the suggested donation value of 5 pounds and display it. Assuming all the pieces were in place, a user from Japan would see a donation button suggesting a 1,000 yen donation.

Now, you would have to include a list of countries in the module, but that's not too bad since those don't usually change ;) When configuring a currency profile, the admin would select countries from a multi-select list and add them to that profile's list (a "list, add / remove buttons, list" UI). This action would remove the selected countries from the global list so that a country could not be assigned to multiple profiles.

Anyway, just a little idea that struck me when I saw your page. The above idea of "currency profiles" could integrate well into other parts of the module (I think), so the code would be pretty reusable throughout your project. Just one example of how it could be extended to subscriptions: create 2 profiles defining the same type of currency, let's say Euro, setup Italy in one profile and the rest of the EU countries in another, have a "Discount" field in the Italy profile set to 5%, and I can give my Italian visitors a discount. Not the best example, but it's a plausible use.

Good luck with the module, keep up the good work.

Nick

The watchdog error message generated by line 1850 of the subscriptions module looks wrong.

I only came across this because I have made a minor add on module to allow manual entry of a subscriber. When it actually works I will post it although I think Lee's version on his TODO list will be more general and probably much tidier.

Paddy

This is a great module. Thanks for providing it.

When I use the following code found in the 'Creating Donation Buttons' paragraph on the 'admin/help/lm_paypal_donations' page...

<?php
  if (function_exists('lm_paypal_donate') {
    // 10 = amount, 'USD' is the currency followed by a description
    // that will appear on the PayPal.dom donations page
    print 'We would really like a $10 donation ' . lm_paypal_donate(10, 'USD', '$10 donation');
  }
?>

... I get this error in the sidebar block:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '{' in /home/mysite/public_html/mydir/includes/common.inc(1175) : eval()'d code on line 2

But when I use the following snippet provided in the readme.txt file, it works - that is, the button shows up without incident or error:

<?php
if (function_exists('lm_paypal_donate')) {
  print 'We would really like a $10 donation ';
  // 10 = amount, 'USD' is the currency followed by a description
  // that will appear on the PayPal.com donations page
  print lm_paypal_donate(10, 'USD', '$10 donation');
}
?>

Also, could you tell me how I can change the button itself? Is that something I must do in Paypal? And how?

Thanks.

Update: I don't know php but it looks like the first snippet is missing ')' in the second line, just before '}'. (?)

by the way, I just checked, anonymous donations seem to work perfectly.

I'm still investigating workflow that allows anonymous to buy a membership in order to register. (they buy before they register, and they are not allowed to register before they buy.)

I spoke with a developer.

he convinced me not to do anonymous purchase of accounts. he said there would be problems if the user's computer froze (requiring a reboot), as well as issues with security if the sessionid were kept in the url.

by the way, Lee, time for a new thread? how about opening a project?

I spoke with a developer.

he convinced me not to do anonymous purchase of accounts. he said there would be problems if the user's computer froze (requiring a reboot), as well as issues with security if the sessionid were kept in the url.

by the way, Lee, time for a new thread? how about opening a project?

Actually I need when a user wants to create his loging, he has to create a subscription alongwith his registration. so How do I show the paypal subscription on my registration page?

Hi Lee

I am trying to create a Node type subscription using Lm_paypal module at my local system. But This is not working at my system I dont know what is the reason while It is successful when I am creating Role Type subscription at the localhost.
Like I created a New Subscription of Node type then went to Paypal subscribe in the navigation menu, and it is not there. Then I try to create a Role Type Subscriptn and went to Paypal Subscribe and this one is there and I can subscribe. But Node type subscription is not coming there. while both subscriptions are visible in LM Paypal Subscription in the Setting Page.

Actually I am creating a Custom Content Type and then every time i create a node of this type, I want that any one can subscribe for these node after only paying otherwise not. Is it possible using this module. Please help.

Thanks

Devender